bomb shelter
Example Sentences
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At first, she thought she would start using a nearby bomb shelter during attacks.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Located in the city center, the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater became a makeshift bomb shelter in the immediate days after the invasion, housing up to 1,500 Mariupoltsi pursuing refuge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
My worries about having a bomb shelter and about the war in Korea began to grow again because there was so much talk about General MacArthur on the television news.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
